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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
By Honigsbaum, Mark
- ISBN
- 9780393254754 9780393254761
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on April 1, 2019 | science & technology
The past 100 years has seen significant advances in medicine, but diseases maintain their frightening power as scientists fight microscopic menaces to contain the next pandemic. Medical historian and City University, London, lecturer Honigsbaum (The Fever Trail) tracks influenza, parrot fever, bubonic plague, legionnaires' disease, AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and Zika to expose how they become global threats. Stories cover how dedicated epidemiologists...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
